Archive for August 30th, 2009
Move Over, Kid
Average Video Gamer in America Is 32 Years Old, According to CDC Here’s a question: If I were to ask you what the average age is for people who play video games on a regular basis, what age would you guess? Twelve years old? 19 years old? Maybe even 25 years old? Try 35 years [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Video Gaming.
Tags: mental health, video games, video games health effects
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No Matter How You Slice It…
Ground Beef More Likely to Contain Salmonella than Whole Cuts While the food on our dinner plates tonight may all have the same destination – our stomachs – how it was packaged before hitting our plates may affect whether or not it arrives to that destination without incident. As most of you know, I’m not [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Salmonella.
Tags: beef, food-borne illness, ground beef
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Shining the Light on Brown Fat
British Study Says Obesity May Be Influenced By Daylight The last time brown fat was news, I predicted it’d be back in the health headlines when the sleigh bells were a jingling, ring-ting-a-tingling. Consider it an early Christmas gift. Back in April, the last time I talked about brown fat, a study was published in [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Obesity.
Tags: brown fat, brown fat and obesity, brown fat in humans, daylight, fat deposits
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Pomegranate Prevention
Study Says the Seeded Apple May Help Prevent Obesity, Diabetes For me, the month of August is one of the more sad times of the year. It’s a month of endings: The summer’s last hurrah, the end of balmy weather, and final reminiscences at the family get-together. On the other hand, August can be a [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Diabetes, Obesity, Pomegranate.
Tags: pomegranates, pomegranates antioxidants, pomegranates nutrition
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Watermelon Wonder
Refueling Your Body…and Your Car? So we know that watermelon can fuel your own personal sex engine, but could it also fuel your car’s engine engine? It may sound far-fetched, the notion of using a food to serve as automobile fuel, but it’s at the very least plausible, especially when one considers the amount of [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Renewable Resources, watermelon.
Tags: automobile fuel, ethanol, renewable resource, watermelon
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